![[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.](/assets/img/quote-photos/history-is-the-story-of-the-magnificent-rear-guard-action-fought-during-several.jpg)
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If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation. Charles Spurgeon
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I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it. Alanis Morissette
years white black
...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white. Alan Watts
years people car
Although the quality of the vehicles is tremendously improving year after year but the underlying reasons that people are buying cars have really gotten focused. It's for high quality vehicles, reliable, fuel-efficient, and safe of course. Alan Mulally
years mad people
I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that. Alan Moore
years rose three
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years style looks
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years childhood arlington
I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood. Alan Hovhaness
history who-we-are way
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. David McCullough
history want done
No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.
history social shank
History is the shank of the social sciences. C. Wright Mills
history lafayette might
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries. Cesare Pavese
history want grants
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. Cary Grant
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When you think about it, history is made to be broken. That's the way we look at it. E. Hicks
history lists surprise
History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. Kurt Vonnegut
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history disposition efficacy
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. Edward Gibbon
curiosity wonder habit
Make curiosity a wonder-ful habit. Chip Conley
curiosity cabbage want
Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.
curiosity factor looks seen
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curiosity causes assumption
Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between the former and the existing causes of change. Charles Lyell
curiosity leisure example
Curiosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it govern any person David Hume
curiosity entering edges
Curiosity is thought on its entering edge. Charles Henry Parkhurst
curiosity looks hearing
I was brought into the curiosity of it because with Sony Pictures Classics, which bought the movie, they look into what the feedback is and base that off of how they release it, and you end up hearing the feedback and getting that early talk. So the reviews early on that were "bad reviews," they were kind of reviewing another movie. Don Cheadle
curiosity littles way
We have relatively little time and a whole lot of curiosity, so the most efficient way to get there is what we do, and that often happens to be some form of science. Jamie Hyneman
curiosity entered longer moment overcame truth
When the moment of truth came, when we entered the city, I was no longer afraid: my curiosity overcame the fear.